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How Hard Is Your Hunt?
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Another MIT Mystery Hunt is in the books, and in many ways it was a wonder. Teammate, the constructing team, packed the weekend with innovation after innovation. Early puzzles were…
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A Serving Of Spaghetti
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The MIT Mystery Hunt is just a few days away, which means it’s time to sharpen your puzzle-solving skills on something that is in no way actually a puzzle. A…
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The Amazing Inventions of Eureka K. Jones
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It’s a new puzzle hunt! Eleven fun and varied puzzles, including a metapuzzle. Originally commissioned by the Mohonk Mountain House and run during its “Wonderful World of Words” weekend. Now…
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Gandalf’s Spellbook
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At this year’s convention of the National Puzzlers’ League, the traditional Saturday-night extravaganza was constructed by over a dozen people, each contributing a single Lord of the Rings-themed puzzle. Here…
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Summer Camp Color War!
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It’s a new puzzle hunt for kids! Summer Camp Color War features puzzles based on Tug O’ War, Capture The Flag, Scavenger Hunt, and many others — nine interlinking puzzles…
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How Very Weird
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On the most recent episode of Dave & Ethan’s 2000″ Weird Al Podcast, I’m interviewed (along with my friend Joe Bohanon) about the work I’ve done with “Weird Al” Yankovic…
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Advice To The Puzzlers
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A few scattered thoughts on putting together a Mystery Hunt, for the 2023 constructing team and anybody else who aspires to do this. Put on the best Hunt you can…
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Bookspace: The 2022 MIT Mystery Hunt: The Puzzles
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It remains to be seen whether I will write a more extensive post about what it’s like to help make a Mystery Hunt — I thought I would, but I’m…
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Spaghetti Time
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It’s National Spaghetti Day! As I’m sure the originators of this annual celebration intended, let’s celebrate by playing a nutty word game! In many puzzle events, solvers face a wide…